Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ISO C
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.165012.7890@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3440@pta.oz.au>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 1991 16:50:12 GMT

In article <3440@pta.oz.au> bgg@pta.oz.au (Ben Golding) writes:
>Recently, I was asked about the ISO C standard which I wasn't aware of.
>Can someone tell me when it was adopted (if it has)?  How does it
>differ from ANSI C?  Are there different levels like ISO Pascal?

ISO C is still being worked on.  Many people hope that its technical
content (as opposed to issues of wording and editorial organization, which
ISO and some of the people involved with it are neurotic about) will be
identical to ANSI C.  There are people agitating for changes, however.
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